Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods honored four of his detention deputies recently for heading off a potentially deadly situation.
Woods presented deputies Joshua Wells, Dustin French, Justin Kosinski and Julian Mejia with his Eagle Eye awards for actions they took on March 3. He said those deputies developed a suspicion that “something wasn’t right” and immediately conducted a shakedown of every inmate in one of the jail’s pods.
During their search, Woods reported that the deputies found two homemade shanks in inmate Rodney F. Snow’s cell. The weapons were confiscated and disposed of, and the 34-year-old Snow was rehoused for the security of everyone in the pod, Woods said.
“Their actions most certainly prevented any harm from coming to another inmate or a detention deputy in the Marion County Jail,” Woods said.
Snow, of Summerfield, was arrested on July 29, 2017 on a multitude of robbery with a firearm charges in connection with several minimart holdups. He is being held on $700,000 bond and is scheduled for to be in court on April 2. Records also show that Snow has a change-of-plea court hearing scheduled for April 16.